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In this Pearl, Yasmine reflects on how a whole school belonging audit revealed the difference between the values leaders intend to uphold and how those values are actually experienced by students, staff, and families. Through listening to community voices, she learned that “values do not live in documents. They live in our behaviors,” and encourages leaders to consider whose voices are present, whose may be missing, and how their decisions create conditions for belonging.
Professional positions cited were the ones held at the time of recording. The positions and schools of those quoted may have since changed.
Yasmine Hashmi is the diversity/inclusion leader at Inter-Community School Zürich.
